Consultation outcome

Tax-Free Childcare: consultation on childcare account provision

• From: HM Treasury and HM Revenue & Customs
• Published: 23 May 2014
• Last updated: 29 July 2014 — See all updates

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

This consultation has concluded

Read the full outcome

Tax-Free Childcare: the government's response to the consultation on childcare account provision

Ref: ISBN 978-1-910337-25-7, PU1693

PDF, 332 KB, 30 pages

Economic Insight report on Tax-Free Childcare: updated assessment of market models

PDF, 1.47 MB, 35 pages

Ipsos MORI research report on Tax-Free Childcare: findings on parents’ account provider preferences

PDF, 352 KB, 36 pages

Detail of outcome

The government has carefully considered the responses to both consultations and the evidence on all of the options. The government’s decision is that National Savings and Investment (NS&I) will be the account provider for Tax-Free Childcare.

Read the news story.

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Original consultation

Summary

Consultation on the provision of childcare accounts in Tax-Free Childcare.

This consultation ran from
23 May 2014 to 11:59pm on 26 June 2014

Consultation description

The consultation seeks views on options for the government to deliver Tax-Free Childcare itself, through National Savings and Investments (NS&I), or within HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). This will mean all interested parties will have had an opportunity to comment on all of the options for account provision across public and private sectors. The government will consider responses to this consultation alongside the response to the previous consultation before it makes its final decision on the provision of childcare accounts.

Read the consultation on the implementation of the Tax-Free Childcare scheme published in August 2013.

Read the government’s response to the August consultation which set out details on the design of Tax-Free Childcare.

The government has also commissioned the following external research on Tax-Free Childcare account provision:

• the economic consultancy Economic Insight will carry out an assessment of the public and private sector account provision options outlined in the consultation document; the specification for this work is set out above

• HMRC have appointed an external research agency to undertake focus groups and interviews with parents on Tax-Free Childcare; further information is available online

This work will report in time to inform decisions on Tax-Free Childcare account provision.

Documents

Tax-Free Childcare: consultation on childcare account provision

Ref: ISBN 978-1-910337-02-8, PU1667

PDF, 372 KB, 25 pages

Economic Insight specification of childcare account provision

PDF, 251 KB, 5 pages

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Published 23 May 2014
Last updated 29 July 2014 + show all updates

1. 29 July 2014

   Response document published alongside Economic Insight and Ipsos MORI research reports

2. 25 June 2014

   Updated with specification of work to be carried out by the economic consultancy Economic Insight on account provision options.

3. 23 May 2014

   First published.